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bedrank

bedrank is the simple past of bedrink.

Meaning of bedrink

Verb

bedrink (third-person singular simple present bedrinks, present participle bedrinking, simple past bedrank, past participle bedrunk or bedrunken)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To drink in; drink up; drink to the fullest
    • [...] not far from Tophana — the place of cannons — and doth there foolishly, selfishly, and sottishly bedrink himself unroyally drunk with bottle after bottle of champagne, [...]1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish life and character
  2. (archaic, reflexive) to get drunk
    • That "moreover it behooveth to scourge all such heretics as would have it that these herein-afore-mentioned swineherds had bedrunk themselves and did cunningly adduce this tale of witchery to the end that they might escape meet [...]"1899, University of Virginia, The Virginia spectator

Questions about bedrank

What is bedrank the simple past of?
Bedrank is the simple past of bedrink.

Words near bedrank in the dictionary

  1. bedraggling
  2. bedrail
  3. bedrails
  4. bedral
  5. bedrals
  6. bedrank
  7. bedrape
  8. bedraped
  9. bedraperied
  10. bedrapes
  11. bedraping

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